Improvement in horse-powers



A. H. HALTOM.

Improvement in Horse Powers.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

ALFRED .H. HALTOM, OF TYBO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND T. COLE, OF

LUXAHOQMA, MISSISSIPPI. l

IMPROVEMENT IN-HORSE-POWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,455, dated April 9, 1872; antedated March 23, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED H. HALTOM, of 'lyro, in the county of Marshall and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horse-Powers, of which the followingis a specification,reference being had to the accompanying (lra\\-'i11g',\vl1icl1 represents a view in elevation of one side of so much of my improved horse-power as is necessary,

to illustrate the invention hereinafter claimed; a portion of the framing being removed to show the gearing.

The object of my invention is to construct a horse-power of easy draft; and my improve- .ment consists in a novel combination and conwhence, by a band L, motion is transferred to the machinery to be operated. By this mode of construction the central shafts Gfare supported against lateral strains of their respective wheels, D E D E, bearing upon their opposite sides, and thus tending to diminish friction. p

I am aware that horse-powers having their gearing overhead are not new, and also that the transmission of power through a series of wheels on opposite sides of a central wheel is not new; and I do not claim either of these features as my invention; but

\Vhat I claim is- The combination of the central main shaft B, the independent concentric shaft f, the parallel lateral shafts d e, the band-wheel shaft, and the gearing connecting all of said shafts, these members being; constructed and operating in combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

ALFRED H. HALTOM.

Witnesses:

7112. T. COLE, SAML. LENERS. 

